The weekly maximum unemployment benefit will increase to $446 this year, and claimants can receive benefits for longer.

Reviewed by Somer Anderson Fact checked by Jared Ecker Unemployment “rises like a rocket and falls like a feather,” as two economic experts put it. That is, in a downturn, unemployment rises quickly ...

But, for the last nine months, the unemployment rate has stayed between 4% and 4.2%. How to calculate the unemployment rate The unemployment rate is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The national unemployment rate currently stands at 4.1%, up from 3.8% a year ago. However, local unemployment rates vary ...

Economists say the Trump administration’s quest to downsize the federal government could briefly add tens of thousands of ...